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• Qarabag (A)

Qarabag 1-2 Chelsea

43' Marc Guiu
78' Delap (pen)
82' Delap (red card)

The constant injuries made people forget. Can't think of many better counter-pressing CBs tbh.

Sanchez with one of his best games for Chelsea, Chalobah stepping up massively and Fofana great. Cucu completely nullified Kudus. All midfielders pretty flawless in the counter-press too (even Enzo). The attacking 3 besides defensive work and pressing - pretty poor.

Of course Moi MOTM like usual 🐐🐐

So happy Fofana is back.

Thats what he does, perfect front foot defending - putting both Muani and Richarlison in his pocket.

Literally only scraped him, never a red

Yeah, but thats Sanchez he will do a dodgy pass or 2 per game. Overall though he was excellent imo.

? What did he do wrong?

I don't hate Delap, but if we bought Mateta instead of him - we would be comfortably top 4 rn.

Would make sure we had a real 9 up-front and would raise our physical floor by a lot. An option to go direct if we're struggling since we have both Mateta and JP to win duels.

This is what I'm truly afraid of

• Tottenham (A)

As bad as that LW looks, I think Gittens coming on ag.tired Porro around 60' is better than him from the start. Lavia vs Santos in the midfield 3 was hard too, but I opted for slightly more control + the ability to drop between CBs and beat the press consistently.

That's all I want to remember from this game tbh, lets move on to beating Spurs now 👍

Genuinely don't know what to say. I'll just pretend this 2nd half didnt happen (minus that Gittens wondergoal).

What the fuck is this game even

Maresca will say we don't have a discipline issue lol

and Jorgensen is bottom 3 of Chelsea goalkeepers in history

We are actually bottom 3 defensively itl

Don't care about this competition too much. Just rest bunch of players and don't play Lavia/Fofana/Gittens for 90 minutes

Thats kinda how I felt too. Im aware its not a masterpiece or anything, but its fun + all the XY lore made it super engaging for me (my first Pokemon games were XY).

This has been the worst matchweek of my life. Literally every result has gone terribly and in the worst way possible.

Ok I'm off to Lumiose City ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️

Fofana, Acheampong and Hato are the only CBs that should get gametime until Badia/Colwill get fit. Put Tosin and Chalobah with Disasi and ship them out ASAP

Tosin and Chalobah are midtable level CBs. We will never challenge for anything important with a team assembled like this

First Caicedo stinker since like 2 years?

Tosin is right footed, but as I said its very close - its like risk vs reward with all of them. I have a feeling Maresca starts Chalobah there though.

3. Jorrel Hato (my choice)

- not used to the physicality of the EPL yet & inexperienced.

+ aerially surprisingly good, cheatcode in build-up thanks to his press resistance & being naturally left-footed, but mostly because it allows us to be able to carry and start attacks from either side quickly.

2. Tosin Adarabioyo

- very slow on transitions, not proven or really needed in the 2-3 shape (no need for his diagonals against a compact 4-4-2) especially on the left, poor form.

+ experienced with physicality of the EPL, aerially dominant.

1. Trevoh Chalobah

- very awkward in build-up on the left, pretty much acts like a pressing trigger for the opposition & despite his size is pretty poor aerially (Sunderland love their crosses/long balls).

+ experienced with physicality of teams like these & fast enough to recover on transitions.

• Sunderland (H)

Very, very tough game - expecting something similar to Forest (H) last season.

Team picks itself besides the LCB - I've gone back and forth, between Hato, Tosin and Chalobah.

Hopefully I'm wrong about this game 🙏🙏

Corporations taking advantage of a very loyal fanbase is very predatory and disgusting to me.

The game is fun though👍

Pokemon locking the most popular megas they advertised in trailers behind a paywall might be genuinely the most slimy thing they've ever done.

The worst thing is that there is like no backlash from Pokemon fans about it - overpriced game, overpriced DLCs and content behind nintendo online paywall.